Scienze Regionali: Italian Journal of Regional Science

Scienze Regionali: Italian Journal of Regional Science was established in 2001 as a forum for debate on territorial issues. It is the official journal of AISRe-Associazione Italiana di Scienze Regionali, the Italian Section of the Regional Science Association International, founded in 1980.

Disciplines such as architecture, urban planning, geography, anthropology, and ecology have long concerned themselves with territory, analysing it from various standpoints. Other disciplines, including economics and sociology, have instead recently recognized the need to construe relational systems according to spatial criteria and to identify the “territory” and the characteristics of social and economic processes related to space.

The journal’s official languages are Italian and English. It publishes original theoretical, methodological, and empirical papers dealing with the above-mentioned topics and more generally drawing on the social sciences as they relate to the study of territory. By hosting contributions from leading international researchers, it aims to become a cutting-edge scholarly journal in its field.

The journal is indexed in JEL on CD, e-JEL, Repec and EconLit and all papers are subject to a blind peer review. It is indexed by the SCOPUS (Elsevier Bibliographic Databases from year 2015) and Journal of Economic Literature [JEL] (of American Economic Association).

The Journal is aimed at: - Academic researchers in the field of regional science; - Scholars at public and private research institutions engaged in territorial-related analyses; - Civil servants, public officers and administrators in national, regional and local public institutions.

Outline of the Journal SR - Italian Journal of Regional Science is organized into a number of sections: